News Headlines - 27 October 2017
▽Catalans declare independence as Madrid imposes direct rule - BBC News
The Catalan regional parliament has voted to declare independence from Spain, while the Spanish parliament has approved direct rule over the region... Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had told senators direct rule was needed to return "law, democracy and stability" to Catalonia.
▽Theresa May rents out her central London flat | Daily Mail Online
Theresa May is earning at least an extra ￡10,000 a year renting out a central London flat she own with husband Philip... It means the rental began just two months after she narrowly survived being kicked out of No 10 and a week after returning from her three week summer holiday.
▽Ukraine to probe MP's three national lottery victories
Ukraine’s anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday it would investigate the case of an opposition leader who declared in his income statement that he had won the national lottery three times, earning a combined 571,045 hryvnias ($21,335).
A new United Nations-mandated report has found it “appears plausible” that an external attack or threat may have led to the fatal plane crash that killed former UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld... The chartered DC6 plane registered as SE-BDY crashed just after midnight on 17-18 September 1961, near Ndola (then Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia), killing Mr. Hammarskjöld and 14 of the 15 members of the party accompanying him, with the sole survivor succumbing to injuries a few days later.
▽Subaru admits improper checks on Japan cars, expects recalls
Subaru Corp on Friday said it had failed to follow proper inspection procedures for vehicles for the domestic market, an issue likely to result in a product recall and adding to a list of compliance problems at Japanese companies.
